Patents by Inventor Yonghui RAO

Yonghui RAO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Speech synthesis method, device and computer readable storage medium
    Patent number: 11881205
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a speech synthesis method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium, and relates to the field of computer technology. The method of the present disclosure includes: dividing a text into a plurality of segments according to a language category to which each of the segments belongs; converting each of the segments into a phoneme corresponding to the segment to generate a phoneme sequence of the text according to the language category to which each of the segments belongs; inputting the phoneme sequence into a speech synthesis model trained in advance and converting the phoneme sequence into a vocoder characteristic parameter; and inputting the vocoder characteristic parameter into a vocoder to generate a speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING JINGDONG SHANGKE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO, LTD., BEIJING JINGDONG CENTURY TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhizheng Wu, Zhengchen Zhang, Wei Song, Yonghui Rao, Zhihang Xie, Guanghui Xu, Shuyong Liu, Bosen Ma, Shuangwen Qiu, Junmin Lin
  • SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20220165249
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a speech synthesis method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium, and relates to the field of computer technology. The method of the present disclosure includes: dividing a text into a plurality of segments according to a language category to which each of the segments belongs; converting each of the segments into a phoneme corresponding to the segment to generate a phoneme sequence of the text according to the language category to which each of the segments belongs; inputting the phoneme sequence into a speech synthesis model trained in advance and converting the phoneme sequence into a vocoder characteristic parameter; and inputting the vocoder characteristic parameter into a vocoder to generate a speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Zhizheng WU, Zhengchen ZHANG, Wei SONG, Yonghui RAO, Zhihang XIE, Guanghui XU, Shuyong LIU, Bosen MA, Shuangwen QIU, Junmin LIN